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jennioire
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(10/3/05 8:50 am)
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Violence in modern adult/childrens fairy tale fiction
I am desperately looking for modern adult or childrens fairy tale fiction which considers the violence inherent in fairy tales.
So far I have Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber' as one of my definite choices but I am really beginning to worry as I cant seem to find any other options.
This is for a university dissertation and any help (asap) would be greatly appreciated...
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Helen J Pilinovsky
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(10/3/05 9:00 am)
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Re: Violence in modern adult/childrens fairy tale fiction
Could you say a bit more about the kinds of tales that you're looking for? Are you interested in retellings which examine the literal/symbolic events of the fairy tales, or for stories possessing an element of self-referentiality, or ...?
From your description, my first suggestion would be Terri Windling's anthology The Armless Maiden: there are a scattering of similar retellings throughout the Datlow/Windling Fairy Tale series (such as Anne Bishop's agonizing retelling of "The Little Match Girl" in Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears). Hope this helps as a starting point ...
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jennioire
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(10/3/05 9:05 am)
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Re: Violence in modern adult/childrens fairy tale fiction
i am looking for works which have the violence common tio fairy tales as a major theme, so these books can be retellings of fairy tales in a modern context... at the moment I am looking for anything.
I had considered perhaps focusing in more specifically on violence towards the woman in modern adult / childrens fairy tale fiction too...
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jennioire
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(10/3/05 9:26 am)
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Re: Violence in modern adult/childrens fairy tale fiction
I have had a look for The Armless Maiden on amazon.co.uk and it looks like I may have a few problems finding it but will look into it further.
Thank so much for your help thus far, perhaps another piece of criteria is that, as this is a dissertation, I am looking for writers who are well- respected critically, if thsi makes sense\?
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jennioire
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(10/3/05 9:32 am)
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Re: Violence in modern adult/childrens fairy tale fiction
I found the following list on www.endicott-studio.com:
Manlio Argueta, Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Light District
Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg (stories)
Kate Bernheimer, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold
A.S. Byatt, Possession (winner of the Booker Prize)
A.S. Byatt, Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (stories)
A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (stories)
Orson Scott Card, Enchantments
Jonathan Carroll, Sleeping in Flame
Hayden Carruth, The Sleeping Beauty Poems
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (stories)
Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats (stories)
Robert Coover, Briar Rose
Kathryn Davis, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf
Marele Day, Lambs of God
Pamela Dean, Tam Lin
Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark
Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni Sister of My Heart
Berlie Doherty, The Vinegar Jar
Charles de Lint, The Jack of Kinrowan
Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch (stories)
Carol Ann Duffy, The World's Wife (poems)
Alice Thomas Ellis, Fairy Tale
Heinz Insu Fenkl, Memories of My Ghost Brother
Gregory Frost, Fitcher's Brides
John Gardner, The King's Indian (stories)
Sandra M. Gilbert, Blood Pressure (poems)
Hiromi Gotto, The Kappa Child (winner of the Tiptree Award)
Sara Henderson Hay, Story Hour (poems)
Alice Hoffman, The Blue Diary
Gwyneth Jones, Seven Fairy Tales and a Fable (stories)
Graham Joyce, The Tooth Fairy
Bilge Karasu, The Garden of Departed Cats
Peg Kerr, The Wild Swans
Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer (winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award)
Tanith Lee, Red As Blood (stories)
Tanith Lee, White as Snow
Tom Le Farge, Terrors of Earth (stories)
Liz Lochhead, Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems (poems)
Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Gregory Maquire, Mirror, Mirror
Juliette Marillier, Daughter of the Forest
Sara Maitland, Angel Maker (stories)
Dennis L. McKiernan, Once Upon a Winter's Night
Patricia A. McKillip, Winter Rose
Hadyn Middleton, Grimm's Last Fairytale
Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter
Robin McKinley, Beauty
Robin McKinley, Deerskin
Susanna Moore, Sleeping Beauties
Lisel Mueller, The Private Life and Waving from the Shore (poems)
Louise Murphy, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, The Inland Ice and Other Stories (stories)
Rachel Pollack, Godmother Night
Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (stories)
Anne Sexton, Transformations (poems)
Delia Sherman, The Porcelain Dove (winner of the Mythopoeic Award)
Nancy Springer, Fair Peril
Lisa Russ Spaar Glass Town
Gwen Strauss, Trail of Stones (poems)
Sheri S. Tepper, Beauty
Gioia Timpanelli, Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
Joan D. Vinger, The Snow Queen (winner of the Hugo Award)
Marina Warner, Indigo
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin (stories)
David Henry Wilson, The Coachman Rat
Susan Wilson, Beauty
Patricia C. Wrede, Snow White, Rose Red
Jane Yolen, Briar Rose
would any of these titles be suitable?
I'm sorry to be insistent, bt I have been looking for so long and the time is fast approaching when i need to know my titles.
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midori
snyder
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(10/4/05 2:29 pm)
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Re: Violence in modern adult/childrens fairy tale fiction
A glance at the list...and considering the element of violence inherent in the narratives (violence which can be defined as molestation, rape, murder, dismemberment....)
All three of the Atwoods have tales that fit this bill. same for Angela Carter, Coover's Briar Rose, (a postmodern version with dreams of rapes, beastiality) and Yolen's Briar rose 9set in a concentration camp) Graham Joyce's The Tooth Fairy (which dovetails into horror) McKinley's Deerskin which has incest...
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jennioire
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(10/4/05 3:07 pm)
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Re: Violence in modern adult/childrens fairy tale fiction
thank you so so much for your reply, i have noted your suggestions and will have a look. I really appreciate your help, and if anyone has any other suggestions or ideas that arent on the list i would welcome them too...
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wendywalker
Registered User
(10/11/05 9:52 pm)
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violence in fairy tales- recommendations
I have several books to recommend which meet your criteria. The first two are my own: THE SEA-RABBIT, OR, THE ARTIST LIFE and STORIES OUT OF OMARIE. The second two are by Anna Maria Ortese, the great Italian writer who died recently: THE IGUANA and THE LAMENT OF THE LINNET, her last book.
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jennioire
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(10/12/05 1:32 pm)
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Re: violence in fairy tales- recommendations
thank you for your help, i shall endeavour to investigate those titles further...
keep these brilliant ideas coming, it's wonderful to meet people who are highly knowledgable and willing to share some of that knowledge with others
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